FeedbackNeeded -- Re: [Samba] Winbind and case sensitivity (revisited)

[Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:34:46AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Andrew and I spoke about this briefly on IRC last week
> while debugging a different winbindd bug.  It would be
> a pretty trivial change but one that would have a
> large impact on existing sites I think.

Probably you're right here. But I have been close to proposing exactly that
change several times now. This has bitten me way too often.

> So the question is how many installations will break if
> winbindd all of a sudden starts lower casing usernames?

With a backward-compatibility parameter I would be fine with that. The question
is whether to default to old or new behavior? If clearly described in the
WHATSNEW I would prefer to default to new behavior, otherwise we can never make
the change.

Volker
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